Your legal career at Horten offers professional challenges, competence development and a varied workday where you can exchange ideas in collaboration with talented, ambitious and committed colleagues.
Attorney
Whether you wish to pursue a career as a senior attorney, specialist attorney or director, or whether your goal is exclusively to become partner, we offer you proper development opportunities, support and mentoring from both experienced partners and a professional People & Culture team.
Independent responsibility for cases and management
The everyday life of an attorney is varied, involving both case management and advisory work, external activities such as client meetings and teaching as well as involvement in Horten’s strategic projects. You will have wide independent responsibility, and we trust that you will be able to promote cases and create good relations with both national and international clients.
Your responsibility increases in line with your seniority and results, and you will quickly realise that you will take on a significant leadership role in your daily work, actively undertaking responsibility for developing others and contributing to developing Horten's business. Read more about our talent development programme, GOambition.
Professional and personal development
Your personal and professional development is important. We promote your development through daily mentoring within our group of attorneys and with the partners, an active feedback culture and our internal training programme, Horten Academy, where skills in areas such as leadership, business acumen, networking and client acquisition are challenged and developed. We support your wishes for professional specialisation and ensure that you are given the right test cases when relevant to your career and ambitions.
As part of your competence development, and because Horten is an international company, we are also open to the possibility of relevant long-term educational stays or postings, and for this we offer favourable conditions.
Associate
As an MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law, you will become an associate after three years as a junior associate. Your tasks equals those handled by attorneys and your conditions, including training and development opportunities, are of course the same as those of attorneys. The only exception is that you cannot conduct litigation.
Senior attorney/senior associate
You are automatically given the title of senior attorney or senior associate after five years of seniority as either an attorney or associate. The title reflects significant experience as a trusted advisor.
Specialist attorney/specialist associate
The position is for the experienced attorney/associate with particularly strong professionalism and significant experience in their field, industry insight and advocacy skills within their specialised area.
In addition to the tasks and responsibilities of a regular attorney or associate role, your work is characterised by highly independent client and case management, where you proactively initiate projects and follow through on complex cases with a focused approach. At the same time, you understand the client's business and the actions required to handle each case and client. You demonstrate an appreciation and interest in management, which is evident in your daily management tasks. You serve as a role model and a valued mentor for junior lawyers, and you are a cultural ambassador for Horten who understands how to incorporate diverse contributions and think across boundaries.
This is an attractive position that reflects Horten’s wish to retain and further develop your competences and abilities, while also acknowledging that, as an attorney, you are highly respected by clients and colleagues for your specialized knowledge. The position can be an end position, but you may also progress to partner if your performance and other competences meet Horten's requirements for partner appointment.
Director
The position of director is at the same level as the specialist attorney. It is a position for the experienced attorney or associate who is capable of and willing to take on additional responsibility. All our directors are characterised by strong professionalism with a continuous focus on providing thorough and high-quality advice, but they also excel at business development and acquisition.
As a director, you will have a highly independent client and case management role, proactively initiating projects and completing cases with a focused approach while understanding the client's business and the actions required to handle each case and client. More specifically, you will launch your own initiatives within business development and acquisition due to solid and commercial industry insight, the ability to think outside the box and an interest in strengthening an existing network (thereby creating new business for Horten). Additionally, you have a keen interest in and sense for leadership, which is demonstrated in your daily management tasks. You are a model and valued mentor for young lawyers, as well as a cultural ambassador at Horten, who understands how to incorporate diverse contributions and think across boundaries.
It is an attractive position that reflects Horten’s wish to retain and further develop your skills and abilities. At the same time, it acknowledges that you, as an attorney, are highly respected by clients and colleagues for your expertise. The position can be an end position, but you may also advance to partner if your performance and other competences meet Horten's requirements for partner appointment.
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